The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1887-03-10

rector in his reading service.
One of Allen G. Thurman's hobbies
is the culture Of fancy chickens.
The tail of fox is called a brush,
but that does not m0ke rabbits tail
hare brush
1t seems that money does not make
the mare go-in the case OF Mr.. Bon
ner and Maud s.
The grandmother of Mrs. Cleveland,
Mrs. Marmon, i. very i'll at her sons
residence in Michigan.
Fifteen million dollars is the sum
stated to have invested in cattle of all
kinds in Idaho during the past three
years.
Managers Of baseball clubs will
please take notice that after next week
Senator Jones' of Florida, will be out
OF a job"
The exports OF lard, pork and hams
for the two month past have more
than offset the decline in foreign ship
ments of bacon.
For the twelve months ending Dec.
81, 1886, the United States exported
breadstuffs to the value of $14S, ,122 900
as against $129,610,0O0 for 1885.
The wife of Senator Jones, of Neva-
da, is the principal mover in the estab-
hshment of home at the capital for
abandoned babes and children.
Boston stood good deal from Sam
Jones, but when he declared that Mo-
ses was more inspired than Emerson
her bean nourished ichor boiled"
Senator Sherman is to make an ex-
tended journey through the South inn
mediately after Congress adjourns,
speaking at Nashville and elsewhere.
Henry R. Harris, who succeeds
Third Assistant Postmaster General
Hazen, is Georgia planter and has
served four terms in the lower House
OF Congress.
The Peabody fund Nondon) now
amonts to $4,553,34O. The original
gift was $2,5OO,0oO, the balance having
been added to it by the money receiv-
ed for rent and interest
A statute of Robert Burns is to be
placed in Washington Park, Albany,
in accordance with the will OF the late
Mary Mcpherson, who left $4,000 for
that purpose last year.
Millionaire Farwell, who succeed
ed Senator Logan and who pays taxes
on $500 worth of personal property
in Chicago, is said to closely resemble
VAO AhNlCnIcu NhTuelu.
A woman in Wolf Pit township, N.
G., angry at her husband, threw the
poker at him as he sat holding their
baby in his arms, and it hit the little
one on the head and killed it.
Estimates OF the aggregate ship
ments OF teas to the United States and
Canada have reached for the year of
1886, 100000 pounds, of which Ja-
pan has credit for 100000 pounds.
A restaurant man in Baltimore has
started out to educate the masses up
to eating and appreciate cold buck
wheat cakes with glucose top dress,
ing. If he fails it will be in good
cause.
A Southern poet, writing about
Stonewall Jackson, says that he chow
ed farewell and walked behind the
stars" Does our Southern brother
mean to intimate that Stonewall was a
"supe?'
Atlanta wants some one to start
cocoanut factory in that city and fill
the nuts with various pleasant bever-
ages principally brandy and cham
pagne. Here is chance for Yankee
ingenuity,
Sam Jones says that the man worth
half million dollars cannot feel the
true spirit of Christianity. There's
lots OF men who'd give Christianity
the clear go-by if they could have that
much money.
1t is said that the residence of Cud-
daily, the Chicago speculator, is elabo-
rately and curiously decorated with
Irish poplin, and that the carpets were
all made in Ireland from designs by
Chicago artists.
Speaker Carlisle is being urged by
his friends to decline the Speakership
next year and assume the free trade
leadership on the floor, with the ex-
pectation of walking into the White
House thereafter